Global Monopoly of Technology

The next guest to speak on stage was one of the Silicon Valley bigwigs who was named and accused in the opening speech, Google founder Larry Page.

Page gave an unscripted speech on the podium, responded to Callavald's criticism, and gave his own plan to repair the Internet.

Well, the big guy "matches" Karawald directly on the spot.

Page's core ideas include two points: First, use new technologies to solve existing technical problems, such as using algorithms to find illegal speeches, and delete them after manual confirmation. Second, by redesigning products to encourage meaningful conversations, Google and the MIT Media Lab cooperated to redefine meaningful online conversations, and finally found four dimensions, including “whether the two sides’ communications intersect; Is it based on the same facts; is it aware of the existence of different viewpoints, is it open and polite”.

However, Page's response did not satisfy critics, just as Callavald's judgment left many tech giants puzzled.

But that's what TED conferences are all about, bringing people with different viewpoints together in the same place, enabling conversations, and then finding solutions to problems.

The first day of the conference was full of gunpowder. People including reporters, Zhengji consultants, and tech giants discussed how to face the problems caused by the Internet and how to have a dialogue under the condition of opposing views.

Larry Page's speech ended after more than six minutes on stage.

The male and female moderators who presided over the conference said in both Chinese and English: "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to give a round of applause to Mr. Luo Sheng, founder and CEO of Azure Coast and Bluestar Technology Group."

As early as two minutes ago, the staff at the scene had contacted Luo Sheng privately, and he had already left the seat in the big boss area under the stage.

After a while, in a round of applause, all the audience below the stage watched the young richest man in the world push a tin vat onto the podium with surprised eyes.

what the hell?

Everyone can't understand this strange operation of the richest man in the world today, and curiosity also came for a while.

Luo Sheng glanced at the iron bucket he pushed onto the podium, clapped his hands, and said, "When my parents were children, the disaster people were most worried about was nuclear war, so we have this kind of disaster in the basement. The tin buckets were in the cellar, and they were used to store food so that when a nuclear war broke out, we could hide in the basement and make a living on that food.”

When many domestic people heard this, they immediately thought of some historical imprints: digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and building embankments.

Although Luo Sheng can speak fluent English, he speaks in his native language in the mainland, and the audience at the scene has a professional real-time human translator.

I saw him say to the audience: "The greatest danger of contemporary global disasters no longer looks like this kind of thing, but this kind of thing."

While he was speaking, two pictures passed through the giant screen at the conference site. The first picture was a huge nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, and the second picture was a microbial virus invisible to the naked eye.

Luo Sheng: "If there's anything that could kill thousands of humans in the next few decades, it's more likely to be a highly contagious biological virus, not war. Part of the reason is that humans are in the nuclear A lot of energy and financial resources have been invested in deterrence, but we have invested very little in the system to prevent the epidemic, and the world has not done a good job in preventing the next big epidemic."

The elites present at the conference suddenly looked very surprised. They thought Luo Sheng would give a speech on consumer electronics or internet technology, but they never expected him to give a speech on life science.

Suddenly, people came up with a thought, does Luo Sheng have a new move?

This time it's about life sciences?

This is indeed the case. The approval documents of the P4 laboratory have been obtained. What Luo Sheng prepared today is to warm up the next layout work.

After a moment, Luo Sheng on the podium recalled an image and continued: "Let's look at the Ebola virus first. I believe that everyone has read about such news in newspapers or Internet media. It is full of many difficult The challenge is to carefully track the development of these viruses using our case study tool for tracking polio."

"With the development of the epidemic, we can see that the problem is not that we don't have a system that can be used, but that there is no system at all in the world. We can see that there are several obvious deficiencies. Epidemiologists who are ready go to the affected area to see the pathology and the development of the disease."

"The pathology is all uploaded from news reports. Basically, the time of uploading information has been delayed very late. In addition, it is very uncertain. We can't find many well-trained medical teams. The approach that awaits.”

"At present, MSF has made a great contribution to mobilizing volunteers, which needs to be affirmed. But even so, the speed of mobilizing thousands of workers to the epidemic area is still very unsatisfactory, and a large epidemic even requires We mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of people on a very large scale.”

Having said this, Luo Sheng paused, paced back and forth on the podium, and continued to speak after a while:

"We don't have anyone looking at the direction of the data, no one looking at diagnostic methods, and no one thinking what tools to use. For example, we might be able to draw survivors' blood, process it, and inject plasma into it. The human body is used to protect people who are not sick, but this method has never been tried, and it is even more frustrating that many things have not been done before it is too late, this is indeed a global failure of all mankind."

"The purpose of the World Health Organization is to monitor epidemic viruses and not to do these things I just talked about, but the plot in the movie is another story, a group of handsome and beautiful epidemiologists are ready, they arrive The epidemic area saved everyone who was affected and became a hero, but this is a pure Hollywood happy ending."

The audience at the scene saw a poster of a sci-fi disaster movie released on the giant screen. The handsome and beautiful hero and heroine looked solemn, but the audience burst into laughter.

The auditorium soon quieted down, and after a while, Luo Sheng said earnestly and attentively: "Our lack of preparation may cause the next epidemic to be more serious than the Ebola virus, so let's take a look at the Ebola virus first. What has happened in West Africa over the past year."

Before he finished speaking, he immediately showed a visual dynamic data evolution model, and Luo Sheng continued: "...about 10,000 people died, and all the dead were in these three countries in West Africa. I think there are three a reason."

"The first reason is the heroic deeds done by the health workers, who found a lot of sick people and prevented more people from getting sick; the second reason is the nature of the virus, Ebola is not airborne, but waits By the time the spreader is contagious enough, most people are already bedridden; the third reason is that the virus didn't reach the metropolis."

Having said this, Luo Sheng faced everyone with a serious expression, and the conference venue was also quiet, only his voice.

"To be honest, it's really pure luck that it didn't break out in the metropolis, if the Ebola virus spread to the tens of millions of people in the super metropolis, I can't imagine how terrible it would be. disaster."

"So next time we may not be so lucky, some viruses may make you unaware, but when people infected with the virus take transportation, or go to shopping malls and other densely populated areas and places with high mobility, they already have Certainly contagious."

"In addition, the source of the virus can be natural, such as the Ebola virus, or it can be produced by a bioterrorism attack, or it can be in contact with wild animals, so the virus that can make the epidemic thousands of times worse is in our lives. on this planet."

"We just look at a mathematical model of airborne transmission of a virus."

Having said this, Luo Sheng looked back at the giant screen and introduced: "This is the 1918 West Pulling Flu, the virus will spread to all corners of the world at a very fast speed, and a total of 30 million people in the world have died from this virus. ."

Luo Sheng turned to face the audience again: "This is a very serious problem, we should never ignore it, we can actually build a very good response system, we can use all the science and technology developed so far, we can use mobile phones to collect information and Posting information, we also have satellite maps to see where people are and where they are moving.”

"At the same time, we have also made very good progress in biology, which can greatly shorten the time for us to find pathogens, and can develop antidote and vaccine in a very short time, so we have tools."

"We need to do a lot of research and development in vaccines and pathology, and I am very happy to contribute as much as possible in this field, and I also call on technology companies, research institutions and wealthy people around the world to pay attention to this field and actively invest This area. I don't have a definite budget for how much this will cost, but I'm sure it's pretty cheap compared to the potential damage."

Having said that, Luo Sheng called up a statistical report.

"According to World Bank estimates, if we had a flu outbreak, the global economy would cost more than $3 trillion, and tens of thousands of people would be killed and injured. These additional investments are compared to just being prepared. There will undoubtedly be significant benefits.”

"Basic health care, research and development can promote the balanced development of global health and make our world healthier and safer, so I think this is very important and urgent, but there is no need to panic too much, we do not need to hoard a lot of food and avoid In the basement, but we have to catch up because time is limited."

"If there is any positive feedback from the outbreak of the Ebola virus, it is an early warning to all mankind, so that all mankind is awakened and prepared. If we can start preparations, then the next epidemic will be We can be ready when it comes, thank you.”

Luo Sheng's speech lasted for less than ten minutes and ended. As he walked off the podium, there was warm applause at the scene, and the staff silently removed the iron bucket he had brought from the stage.

And Luo Sheng's appeal also attracted the attention of many people, especially those in the capital circle.

Many people secretly speculate that the world's richest man may have to play new tricks again. Otherwise, it is impossible to give this speech at the TED conference for no reason. What is even more interesting is that this has a great span with Luo Sheng's usual business.

This is a crossover from the field of Internet and ICT to the field of life sciences. The crossover is not an ordinary one, and Luo Sheng's speech all expressed his intention to show his strength in the field of life sciences.

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